The third player in the GPU industry, S3, has reportedly announced that their DX10 Chrome 460 and 430 will be available by years end. To be manufactured by Fujitsu, the 430 will be built using older 90nm process technology and the 460 will apparently be 65nm.

AMD today announced a new extension (PDF) to the X86 instruction set. SSE5 is "designed to allow software developers to simplify code and achieve greater efficiency." Features worth noting are FP16 and new instructions to move values within an XMM register.

DigiTimes are reporting that Nvidia's mid-range G92 GPU is going to be launched on the 12th of November. To supposedly replace the 8800GTS the G92 is aimed at AMD's RV670 core, while the low-end G98 will take on the RV620.

After guarding any info that could possibly be leaked about Vista's first service pack, Microsoft have finally stepped past the barricades and revealed that Vista service pack one will be available early next year.